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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: of the two or three who know better. Now the question is whether
you can do it for two or three. Is that the stuff you're made of?"
It locked his guest a minute as in closed throbbing arms. "I could
do it for one, if you were the one."
"Don't say that; I don't deserve it; it scorches me," he protested
with eyes suddenly grave and glowing. "The 'one' is of course
one's self, one's conscience, one's idea, the singleness of one's
aim. I think of that pure spirit as a man thinks of a woman he has
in some detested hour of his youth loved and forsaken. She haunts
him with reproachful eyes, she lives for ever before him. As an
artist, you know, I've married for money." Paul stared and even
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